french_quebec · Canada

Quebec (Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean)

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Reference-quality preset: a phonetic matrix and a short blurb, not a full flagship build-out. See a flagship variety (Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama) for situations, cultural context, sayings, and a guided path.

Canada · Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean

Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean French (colloquially 'Jean-nois' or 'Bleuet' French, after the region's blueberry industry): widely cited in Quebec dialectology as one of the province's most phonologically marked regional varieties (Dumas 1987) -- not a different set of processes from Montreal or Quebec City, but the SAME Laurentian processes realized at their most pronounced. This preset models that as higher feature weights on `long_vowel_diphthongization`, `t_d_affrication` and `checked_vowel_laxing` than either other Quebec preset, rather than inventing a fourth set of matrix values -- the region's sounds are more of the same thing, not a different thing. One honestly unmodeled trait: SLSJ French is also widely described as having its own distinctive melodic/'singing' intonation contour, but `IntonationContour`'s Literal values are all named after specific Spanish-speaking regions (rioplatense_bounce, chilean_fast_fall, ...); forcing SLSJ's genuinely different melody into one of those labels would misrepresent it more than leaving `intonation_contour` at its neutral default.

The most pronounced long-vowel diphthongization in the Quebec French library (père, fête) -- SLSJ is the textbook example dialectologists cite for how far this process can go (Dumas 1987)Alveolar /t d/ affrication before /i y/, at a stronger weight than Montreal or Quebec City (tu, dire)The most pronounced checked-syllable vowel laxing in the libraryUvular R and phonemic nasal vowels, shared with the rest of Laurentian French

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Feature	Value	Drill
Languagelanguage	fr	Drill
Mixed Languagesmixed_languages	—	Drill
S Treatments_treatment	standard	Drill
D Intervocalicd_intervocalic	standard	Drill
D Finald_final	standard	Drill
R Infinitiver_infinitive	standard	Drill
N Final Velarizationn_final_velarization	No	Drill
Final Consonant Dropfinal_consonant_drop	none	Drill
Vowel Reductionvowel_reduction	crisp_open	Drill
Vowel Nasalizationvowel_nasalization	phonemic	Drill
R Guttural Strengthr_guttural_strength	strong_uvular	Drill
Long Vowel Diphthongizationlong_vowel_diphthongization	Yes	Drill
T D Affricationt_d_affrication	alveolar_ts_dz	Drill
Checked Vowel Laxingchecked_vowel_laxing	Yes	Drill